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There are around 7,000 languages spoken across the world, but it is estimated that only 35% of these are safe with up to 90% of its distinctive writing traditions to be lost in the next century. In some cases, it is already too late.

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Producer and director Gesbeen Mohammad discussed her new film “Battle For Tibet,” what it reveals about life in #Tibet now, and the uncertain future for Tibetan Buddhism, language, and culture in this episode of The PBS FRONTLINE Dispatch podcast: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

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📣Here is the @sfemt.bsky.social statement on the use of the term TUBO ⏩ www.sfemt.fr/sfemt-statem...

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Interested in studying ancient, extinct and endangered languages from Akkadian and Aramaic to Xhosa and Zulu on the beautiful island of San Servolo in Venice this summer? Check out the fantatstic programme by the Université d’été en Langues de l’Orient of UNIL here: www.unil.ch/unil/fr/home...

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Rreminder that registration is now open for: Summer School of the School of Celtic Studies (@scs-dias.bsky.social) at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (@diasdublin.bsky.social): www.dias.ie/2024/11/12/c... I will offer an introduction to Ancient Celtic languages in week 1.

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Scream Cipher xkcd.com/3054

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Old Avestan Dictionary Uesugi, Heindio & Adam Alvah Catt (eds.). 2024. Old Avestan dictionary (Asian and African Lexicon, 67). Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa. www.biblioiranica.info/old-avestan-...

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In Austria, autochthonous minorities had to fight for their right to bilingual topography for decades before an agreement was reached. So it was good news that last autumn the railway stations in the bilingual communities of Burgenland and Carinthia also received bilingual station signs!

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L’Académie Belge pour l’Étude des Langues Anciennes et Orientales (ABELAO) a le plaisir de vous inviter à son école d’été, qui se tiendra à Louvain-la-Neuve du 29 juillet au 8 août. Plus de détails et inscriptions sur www.abelao.eu

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Today is the deadline for registering activities for Global Language Advocacy Day 2025 #GLAD25. You can contribute with art or poetry or organising an event or writing a blog post - all contributions are valuable. Build a space that honours language rights. www.coalitionforlanguagerights.org/glad25

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Congratulations to Cid Swanenvleugel who earned his PhD with his Thesis “The pre-Roman elements of the Sardinian lexicon”, under supervision of Guus Kroonen and myself. The book is available for download (open access) through: www.lotpublications.nl/the-preroman...

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My article on Mock Foreigner speech is now available open access at Language and Communication! In it, I build on the mock language framework to explain what's up with the linguistic features used to invoke (white) foreignness in a Japanese media context. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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An actual academic with an apparently wide audience is currently more or less denying the validity of historical linguistics on Quitter, and it is all so very exhausting. No, of course he's not a linguist, and he clearly does not understand the methodology....

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CfP: Mobility in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean: Movements of People, Objects and Ideas, 13–14 June 2025 caemc.ut.ee/icaem-2025/

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Our papers, out today in @nature.com, show how ancient DNA from the Eneolithic and Bronze Age steppe points to a North Pontic origin of the Indo-European language family and a Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) origin of Indo-Anatolian (inclusive of the now extinct Anatolian languages). 1/

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Wow, this must be the release of the year: A translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch into English side by side with the Hebrew Text, with the differences between the Samaritan and the MT highlighted in red. Best of all, it is open access! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

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Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The new acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy — State’s top public diplomacy official: 1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it 2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)

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Happy New Year, everyone. May the Year of the Snake bring prosperity and an end to evil times. I have good news and bad news about my forthcoming book, Chinese Characters Across Asia. Good: It is completely done and in production! Bad: The official publication date has slipped to March 4.

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🏛💰 News! A hoard of coins, containing 44 gold staters minted by British king Cunobelin, has been found in the Netherlands. The hoard's composition and dating suggest it could be the donative of a #Roman soldier involved in the AD 43 invasion of Britain. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

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January 27, 1995: The codification of the Rusyn language in Slovakia is officially announced in Bratislava 🇸🇰. This mainly arose from the work by linguists Juraj Paňko and Vasiľ Jabur (pictured), who published their spelling rules and spelling dictionary in 1994. 1/2

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Some good academic news: My colleagues Olena Palko, Börries Kuzmany, and I have signed a contract to edit a Handbook of Ukrainian History for Oxford University Press - to my knowledge the first major academic handbook of Ukrainian history in any language. Looking forward to a challenging task!

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The Robert van Gulik Fund has established a Robert van Gulik Fellowship with effect from 2025, to support research on the sinological collections of the Leiden University Libraries. Details and application form available here: edu.nl/putg4 Deadline for submitting research proposals: 1 April 2025.

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264 psychiatrists have written an open letter to Slovakia's Prime Minister, Robert Fico, urging him to leave politics and undergo a mental health evaluation. dennikn.sk/4415750/otvo...

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Urny s ostatky Věry a Milana Kunderových se z Paříže vrátily do spisovatelova rodného Brna. irozhl.as/tO8

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Have you grown up with more than one writing system? Do you live in a community with local or minority writing/language traditions? Are you interested in typography or font design? Please share your experiences of writing with us! viewsproject.wordpress.com/your-stories/

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Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text. “In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “

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The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (OCHJS) invites proposals from individuals wishing to undertake a Visiting Fellowship at the OCHJS on a topic related to Jewish History. @uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social www.ochjs.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

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No UK PM has ever attended a US presidential inauguration. One reason the ill informed might be insisting otherwise is Musk's Grok... which is wrong.

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"AI reveals what ancient languages, including Greek, sounded like" No it doesn't! A great deal of human research has gone into those reconstructions - making it sound as though AI is doing the work or making the revelations is a complete misrepresentation 😠

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China's "placing children in boarding schools in a drive to assimilate a generation of Tibetans into the national mainstream and mold them into citizens loyal to the Communist Party... Parents do not see their children for long stretches." By Chris Buckley for NYTimes:

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"Slavic mythology, compared to other mythologies from Europe, it's still so mysterious, there's so little known about it, so little has been recorded that there's some incredible mystery in it. It's cool because you can explore it," says Julia. www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

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I have a chapter on the late Tang poet Wen Tingyun 溫庭筠 in this book, alongside a host of pieces by many great scholars. If you're curious about Chinese literary history, consider checking it out. And ask your library to buy it! www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...

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Ten kluk, který odmítl podat při dnešním ceremoniálu na Bratislavském hradě ruku prezidentovi Slovenska získal bronzovou medaili na Středoevropské matematické olympiádě. Respekt velikej.

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This image started out as a simple graphic showing the relationship between "skirt", "shirt", and "shorts", but gradually grew until we have this: How 21 different words in English evolved from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to cut". #etymology #linguistics #language #english

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